Role of the antiferromagnetic bulk spins in exchange bias
Role of the antiferromagnetic bulk spins in exchange bias
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jmmm.2016.04.065
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发表时间:
2016-10
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
I. Schuller;R. Morales;X. Batlle;U. Nowak;G. Güntherodt
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作者:
I. Schuller;R. Morales;X. Batlle;U. Nowak;G. Güntherodt
This “Critical Focused Issue” presents a brief review of experiments and models which describe the origin of exchange bias in epitaxial or textured ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers. Evidence is presented which clearly indicates that inner, uncompensated, pinned moments in the bulk of the antiferromagnet (AFM) play a very important role in setting the magnitude of the exchange bias. A critical evaluation of the extensive literature in the field indicates that it is useful to think of this bulk, pinned uncompensated moments as a new type of a ferromagnet which has a low total moment, an ordering temperature given by the AFM Néel temperature, with parallel aligned moments randomly distributed on the regular AFM lattice.